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So let’s look at how brutally unpopular the excise tax of the President’s plan is as a way to pay for health care reform, vs. the tax on the wealthy included in the House bill.
Posts Tagged ‘excise’
February 24 2010
FDL Action » Ruth Marcus Does the Health Care Vote Math
Tags: brutally-unpopular, care-reform, excise, excise-tax, house, how-brutally, look-at-how, pay-for, polling-done, president, research, the-wealthy, unpopular-the-excise, vs-the, wealthyFebruary 18 2010
AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Most Workers Hurt by Tax on Health Benefits Are …
Tags: -care-bill, and-the, berkeley, cadillac, california, center-, education, excise, excise-tax, labor, looked-at-both, revised-version, senate, universityThe study by the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education looked at both the excise tax on so-called Cadillac plans in the Senate health care bill and the revised version reached Jan. …
January 15 2010
Matthew Yglesias » Health Care Paranoia
Tags: a-special-two-year, benefits-get, excise, exemption-from, special-two-year, tax-deal, the-excise, the-merits, which-collectivelyObviously, the excise tax deal by which collectively bargaining health benefits get a special two-year exemption from the tax is a bit of a grubby interest-group compromise. Igor Volsky offers a case on the merits, but I think it’s …
January 14 2010
Tentative Deal on the Cadillac Health Insurance Plans Reached …
Tags: -care-bill, a-second-day, abc, democratic, discussions, excise, marathon-work, second-day, source-familiar, tentative-deal, the-excise, white, with-the, with-the-discussionsAs Democratic leaders head into a second day of marathon work at the White House on a final health care bill, a source familiar with the discussions tells ABC News that a tentative deal has been reached on the excise tax on so-called.
January 9 2010
The health insurance excise tax – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com
Bottom line: the details of the excise tax should be fixed, but it’s on balance a good idea.
January 9 2010
Shea-Porter goes rogue on health reform : Now! Hampshire
Tags: a-back-down, back-down, carol-shea-, down-on-the, excise, president-barack, reform-bills, the-excise, the-final, vote-forHarry Reid and President Barack Obama back down on the excise tax in the health reform bills being merged in a secret conference committee, Democratic Rep. Carol Shea-Porter will not vote for the final bill. …
